Improvement in paper-hangers  tables



J. OBGILL.

Paper-Hangers Table.

Patented Sept. 21,1875.

WITNESSES N.PETERS. PHOTO LTHOGR WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN ORGILL, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSICNOR TO HIMSELF AND JEREMY W. BLISS, 0F SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER-HANGERS TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 167,924, dated September 21, 1875 application filed March 5, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J on: ORGILL, of the city and county of Hartford, State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper-Hangers Table; and to enable others skilled in the art to make the same, I will proceed to describe, referring to the drawings, in which the same letters indicate like parts in each of the figures.

The object of my invention is to provide a board or table for the use of paper-hangers, and for other purposes for which it may be adapted, which can be folded up into a small compass, to allow of its being easily carried from place to place; and my invention consists of a board or frame-work table, composed of sections hinged together, and provided with legs or supports, having fastening-screws or dowels, and so arranged that they may be folded or inolosed within the table when closed up for transportation.

Figure l is a view of the under side of the table, or of the table opened and upside down. Fig. 2 is a side or edge view of the same. Fig. 3 is a view of the whole folded together in small compass to allow its being easily carried from place to place.

a b is a board or frame-work of a table, which is composed of oblong sections, and hinged together so that when open they will present the working-surface of the table. The ends of two of these sections are hinged with loose-joint hinges to the ends of the other two. the edges of which are secured together with close-joint hinges, so that one half of the tables or two sections will close over onto the other half, which are securely attached together, thus forming a box or storage-room for the table-legs, appliances, tools, 850. also, so that two sections may be easily detached from the other sections, thus forming a short table, to be used where it is inconvenient to use a table the whole length. 0 are supportingplates, designed to be placed across the frame-work at each end, having orifices through which the fastening-screws or dowel d of the legs d pass into metal nut-plates or framework, so that the legs may be quickly and easily secured in the frame-work, and quickly and easily removed and packed 'in the tableboxing. d are legs hinged to the end of onehalf of the table-frame, supported in position when in use by a proper fastening device, as shown at 0, so that they may be quickly and easily closed down into the boxing. f are hinges, and are designed to be loose joint, so that'one-half or two sections of the table may be detached, and allow the other half two sections to be used in a small room, or when and where one-half would be more desirable and convenient than the whole. Thus, when no longer wanted for immediate-use, the whole may be quickly folded together, inclosing its appendages, tools, 850., into a small compact form, as shown in Fig. 3.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The combination of folding sections a b, with legs 01 d, and supporting-plate 0, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The folding sections a 1), two or more, in combination with the legs 61 d, and the supporting-plate c, and hinged legs d, all constructed substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

JOHN ORCILL. L s.]

Witnesses:

H. O. POTTER, JEREMY W. BLISS. 

